Home Automation Presented By - Ananya Kumar Raghuwanshi INTRODUCTION It was not too long ago that we visualised houses of the future where things would be done on their own - lights coming on by themselves, coffee being brewed just the way you like as you’re about to wake up and your shower knowing the weather outside and adjusting the water temperature accordingly. And now we are at a point where technology to achieve all that has been around for a while and has now become affordable. Hence, it is not a particularly big surprise that we are witnessing some amazing things happening in the world of home automation. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out what home automation entails: it’s pretty much just the usage of smartphones and other easily available computing devices to automate and control household items and devices – from electrical appliances to lights to doors – with the help of hardware that can be controlled remotely. WHAT IS AUTOMATION? We spend a lot of time at our home, using various devices. By automating our Smartphone and feature phone statistics home, we can reduce human intervention in using various devices. As an example, let’s say you wish to watch a movie on your TV. You can just press a button, that will start your TV, start the DVD drive and get you straight to the movie menu or even start the movie for you. These are some of the things possible by automating our home. It might be making us all lazier everyday, or one might argue that it is giving us far greater time to pursue whatever we desire. Whatever might be the effect, there is no doubt that automation is the future and the place that it is happening the most significantly is right in our homes. The main advantages of automation are: • Increased throughput or productivity. • Install automation in operations to reduce cycle time • Improved quality or increased predictability of quality. • Improved robustness (consistency), of processes or product. • Increased consistency of output. • Reduced direct human labor costs and expenses. • Replacing humans in tasks done in dangerous environments (i.e. fire, space, volcanoes, nuclear facilities, underwater, etc.) • Provides higher level jobs in the development, deployment, maintenance and running of the automated processes The main disadvantages of automation are: • Security Threats/Vulnerability: An automated system may have a limited level of intelligence, and is therefore more susceptible to committing errors outside of its immediate scope of knowledge (e.g., it is typically unable to apply the rules of simple logic to general propositions). • Unpredictable/excessive development costs: The research and development cost of automating a process may exceed the cost saved by the automation itself. • High initial cost: The automation of a new product or plant typically requires a very large initial investment in comparison with the unit cost of the product, although the cost of automation may be spread among many products and over time. Now the Biggest Question Best answer can be explain by a BLOCK DIAGRAM What could be the Future be like with Home Automation? Answer is - J.A.R.V.I.S Of course not all of this is possible today. But that’s the eventual home automation future many companies are betting on. And each of them are in the process of coming up with their own version of JARVIS (or a smart hub) that will enable all of this.
